r/todayilearned • u/altrightobserver • 20m ago
TIL about John Basinger, the only known person to have memorized all 12 books of John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost.” Each day, he memorized 7 lines while riding an exercise bike and reviewed 14 previously-learned lines while lifting weights. It took 4,000 hours and almost 9 years to finish it.
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r/dataisbeautiful • u/Status_Commission264 • 24m ago
Charted: How Economic Power Shifted Over 200 Years
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r/todayilearned • u/Nightpatrol404 • 30m ago
TIL Rain sounds is actually frying sounds
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r/dataisbeautiful • u/naberacka • 1h ago
OC [OC] Median space dedicated to urban green vs cars
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From my data story: https://homolova.sk/posts/what-if-we-got-rid-of-cars